"[The process] will commence this evening and hopefully will be completed by Wednesday", he said.

Mosques across New Zealand were opened on Sunday but police are maintaining a strict vigil and the premises will have an armed presence.

"We want some confirmation that he is dead, alive or in emergency". All injured are undergoing treatment at Christchurch Hospital. A critically injured 4-year-old girl was also brought to Christchurch Hospital then transferred to an Auckland hospital, according to Greg Robertson, chief of surgery at the Christchurch hospital.

A girl walk to lay flowers on a wall at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, March 17, 2019.

Mr Bush said police would not release a list of the victims until they had been formally identified.

Images captured by media outlets during that court appearance are being published blurred or pixellated due to an order from the judge who presided over Tarrant's hearing, The New Zealand Herald reports.

Four New Zealand women hugged each other outside the cordon.

A 74-page manifesto posted to a message board website, entitled The Great Replacement, was allegedly authored by him and explained the attacks were to avenge "thousands of deaths caused by foreign invaders". The attack on the Al Noor and Linwood mosques has prompted an outpouring of grief and deep shock in this usually peaceful coun.

"And within 36 minutes, we had that mobile offender within our custody".

Facebook said it had removed 1.5 million videos of the attack from the social media platform within 24 hours of the incident.

Ardern, however, stopped short of suggesting New Zealand could implement a similar policy in the wake of the attacks in Christchurch.

Muzzammil Pathan arrived to offer his condolences for a friend, Imran Khan, who was killed at a second mosque in the suburb of Linwood. He also had more assault weapons in the trunk of his vehicle, along with what appeared to be explosives. A fourth person who was apprehended but has since been released as he "was a member of the public who was in possession of a firearm, but with the intention of assisting police".

His relatives in the Australian town of Grafton, in New South Wales, contacted police after learning of the shooting and were helping with the investigation, local authorities said. "But at least give us a time frame", she pleaded.

New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed the suspect was involved in both shootings but stopped short of saying he was the sole gunman.

Friday's attack, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labelled as terrorism, was the worst ever peacetime mass killing in New Zealand and the country had raised its security threat level to the highest. In 2015, it had just eight.

Ardern said the main suspect was a licensed gun owner who used five weapons during his rampage, including two semi-automatic weapons and two shotguns.

"We need to ban some semi-automatics, perhaps all of them", he clarified.

The video footage showed a man driving to the mosque, entering it and shooting randomly at people present inside.

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The surge could submerge thousands of homes and businesses, and potentially displace more than 1,000 residents, the Post reports. Senior forecaster Jan Vermeulen said: " Cyclone Idai made landfall at about midnight and is now lying north-west off Beira".

Labelling the attack as an act of terrorism, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to reform the country's gun laws. A suspect in the mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques on Friday appeared in court on Saturday and was charged with murder.

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